摘要
Single-walled carbon nanotubes （SWCNTs） illuminated by white light should appear colored due to resonance Rayleigh scattering. However, true-color imaging of SWCNTs on substrates has not been reported, because of the extremely low scattering intensity of SWCNTs and the strong substrate scattering. Here we show that Rayleigh scattering can be greatly enhanced by the interface dipole enhancement effect. Consequently colorful SWCNTs on substrates can be directly imaged under an optical microscope by wide field supercontinuum laser illumination, which facilitates high throughput chirality assignment of individual SWCNTs. This approach, termed ＂Rayleigh imaging microscopy＂, is not restricted to SWCNTs, but widely applicable to a variety of nanomaterials, which enables the colorful nanoworld to be explored under optical microscopes.
白光照亮的围单人赛的碳 nanotubes (SWCNT ) 应该由于散布的回声瑞利显得有颜色。然而，底层上的 SWCNT 的真彩成像没被报导，因为 SWCNT 和散布的强壮的底层的极其低的散布紧张。这里，我们证明散布的瑞利能被接口偶极子改进效果极大地提高。底层上的因而丰富多彩的 SWCNT 能被宽地 supercontinuum 激光照明直接在一台光显微镜下面想象，它便于单个 SWCNT 的高产量 chirality 赋值。这条途径，称为的瑞利成像显微镜学，没被限制为 SWCNT，但是对许多 nanomaterials 广泛地适用，它使丰富多彩的 nanoworld 能在光显微镜下面被探索。
基金
The authors would like to thank Prof. Feng Wang, Prof. Xuedong Bai, and Prof. Kaihui Liu for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China （No. 2012CB932301） and the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Nos. 90921012, 11321091, 51102144, 11274190, and 51102147）.
